Recent: fansubs, music, podcasts
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halfcactusSubbed: Zhang Xincheng's Spotlight x Egypt Vlog
Hit 1,000 subscribers sometime since I last logged into my YT account... I'm not one to care for these milestones since none of my ~content~ is truly mine anyway (AND I'm no longer in fandom), but I figured it was an excuse to finally dust off a WiP that has been sitting in my hard drive for months... I had to ropellonkrebboj into beta-ing this one because I wasn't comfortable being my usual lackadaisical self about this since the subject involves real people and places. I'm VERY grateful that she was willing to sit through a 6-minute celebrity video to comb my work thoroughly and offer me the corrections + extra details I needed. :')
Also reccing a song thatllonkrebboj just subbed and that I really enjoyed the lyrics of—折扇 The Folding Fan by Winky诗 ... The second verse with the fan vibrant in the opera singer's hand was sooooo good.
Text version with translation notes here.
In other news:
I've finally been managing to finish most of the books/comics in my "currently reading" queue since I finished Bridge Tower... But I 1) haven't had any spoons to write about them here (other than a couple of Shortbox stuff), 2) don't even have enough space in my journal/planner to write about them there. JOURNALING PROBLEMS, AMIRITE? </3 (I recently found my Platinum Preppy so I've been actually writing on my journal again) (Mostly thoughts about media)
Natsume's Book of Friends is back with season 7, which is PERFECT for October. But I don't really have the time/spoons to watch stuff... I've been slightly fatigued, moderately stressed, and overwhelmingly mad at the world haha .___.
And because I've been stressed and tragically earphone-less, I've been listening to podcasts again! Some recent listens:
- PCHH's Pop Culture Pumpkin Spice Lattes episode: A mood-booster; It was great to hear the gang back together again and ribbing each other for their choices. ♥
- The What Arabic LGBTQ+ Slang Tells Us episode in Slate Books: Really enjoyed hearing about dialects and evolutions of slang (my favorite tidbit was the one about the Jack card having a metrosexual vibe), and how language "flows visa-free from one place to another".
- One of the Dear Prudence eps where the hosts describe wedding imperfections as part of the slice-of-life.
- Now listening to the SYSK episode about Lysol and how it used to be marketed as a contraceptive. D:
Hit 1,000 subscribers sometime since I last logged into my YT account... I'm not one to care for these milestones since none of my ~content~ is truly mine anyway (AND I'm no longer in fandom), but I figured it was an excuse to finally dust off a WiP that has been sitting in my hard drive for months... I had to rope
llonkrebboj into beta-ing this one because I wasn't comfortable being my usual lackadaisical self about this since the subject involves real people and places. I'm VERY grateful that she was willing to sit through a 6-minute celebrity video to comb my work thoroughly and offer me the corrections + extra details I needed. :')Also reccing a song that
llonkrebboj just subbed and that I really enjoyed the lyrics of—折扇 The Folding Fan by Winky诗 ... The second verse with the fan vibrant in the opera singer's hand was sooooo good.Text version with translation notes here.
In other news:
- PCHH's Pop Culture Pumpkin Spice Lattes episode: A mood-booster; It was great to hear the gang back together again and ribbing each other for their choices. ♥
- The What Arabic LGBTQ+ Slang Tells Us episode in Slate Books: Really enjoyed hearing about dialects and evolutions of slang (my favorite tidbit was the one about the Jack card having a metrosexual vibe), and how language "flows visa-free from one place to another".
- One of the Dear Prudence eps where the hosts describe wedding imperfections as part of the slice-of-life.
- Now listening to the SYSK episode about Lysol and how it used to be marketed as a contraceptive. D:
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